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A portrait by Richard Westall of the poet Eleanor Porden

04/2024 | 1453 | 166

Pages: 358–367

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Author:

Bryant, Barbara (Bryant, Barbara)

Subjects

artists:

Westall, Richard / Flaxman, John / Flaxman, Mary Ann (1768–1833)

dates:

1800-1809

museums and institutions:

Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, Urbana Champaign, United States

patrons:

Porden, William / Knight, Richard Payne / Hope, Thomas, 1769-1831

subjects:

Portraits / Sitters / Porden, Eleanor Anne (1795–1825) / Poetry / Neo-classicism / British art / Attributions / Attributions, former

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Reverse of Fig.2, showing the handwritten inscription on the stretcher.

Attributed works:

10. Design for a couch, by Thomas Hope. 1807. Engraving. (From Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, Executed From Designs By Thomas Hope, London, pl.xxviii, nos.2 and 3).

Attributed works:

11. Thetis bringing the armour to Achilles, by John Flaxman. 1805. Engraving. (From The Iliad of Homer Engraved from the Compositions of John Flaxman RA Sculptor, London, pl.xix).

Attributed works:

2. Eleanor Anne Porden, here attributed to Richard Westall. 1807. Oil on canvas, 113 by 143.8 cm. (© Christie’s Images; Bridgeman Images; Krannert Art Museum, Champaign IL).

Attributed works:

3. Eleanor Porden, by John Flaxman. 1807. Graphite on paper, 15.9 by 11.1 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).

Attributed works:

4. Photograph of a lost drawing of Eleanor Porden. (Derbyshire Record Office, Matlock).

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5. Detail from J. Horwood’s Plan, showing 59 Berners Street. (From J. Horwood: Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark and parts adjoining shewing every house, London 1794).

Attributed works:

6. Portrait of Richard Westall, R.A., by Thomas Lawrence and Richard Westall. Mid-1790s. Graphite on paper, 21.4 by 16.3 cm. (© Christie’s Images; Bridgeman Images; private collection).

Attributed works:

7. Expiation of Orestes, by William Bond, after Richard Westall. 1810. Stipple engraving, 35.3 by 30.5 cm. (From J. Britton et al.: The Fine Arts of the English School, London 1812).

Attributed works:

8. Reconciliation of Helen and Paris, after his defeat by Menelaus, by Richard Westall. c.1805. Oil on panel, 127 by 101 cm. (Tate).

Attributed works:

9. Detail of Fig.2, showing the frieze on the vase.

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